Former world champion accuses Jake Paul vs Mike Tyson of being a \u201cfix\u201d Associated PressJake Paul vs Mike Tyson has been accused of being a \u201cfix\u201d by former world champion Carl Froch. \u2018The Cobra\u2019, who is a three-time world super-middleweight champion, has been outspoken in his criticism of Paul\u2019s ability in the past and has not held back on his views over his mega fight with Tyson. Paul, 27, will take on Tyson, 57, who his thirty years older than him, in a professional fight at the AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, on Saturday, July 20, live on Netflix. Both fighters are expected to be paid handsomely for the bout, but critics have slammed Paul, who boasts a 9-1 record, for fighting Tyson, who was last a world champion in 1996 and hasn\u2019t fought professionally since 2005. As such, some experts and fighters have aired their concerns over Tyson\u2019s welfare in the fight, with former heavyweight world champion Deontay Wilder even suggesting he could end up in a coma. However, Froch doesn\u2019t share those concerns and has even suggested the fight will be scripted as part of the contract, so that Paul wins and continues on his boxing career. \u201cI\u2019m not worried about Mike Tyson, Jake Paul cannot fight. None of his knockouts are legitimate,\u201d Froch told Lord Ping. \u201cHis knockouts were against opponents who didn\u2019t know what they were doing. He\u2019s f****** useless; his technique, style, balance, offence, defence, the way he sets up his punches \u2013 he cannot fight. \u201cMike is going to be absolutely fine. I think Wilder saying Mike is at risk of a coma is over exaggerated, Wilder is getting carried away and giving Jake more credit than he\u2019s worth. I even give Mike a chance of winning, but Jake\u2019s youth will defeat father time. \u201cI think there will be a script as a part of the contract. This is a fix. Mike will be taking his time like he did against Roy Jones, not trying to hit or hurt Jake, because that\u2019s how the Roy fight went. \u201cI think he\u2019s getting paid well, and the script will be: take your time, don\u2019t do anything silly.\u201d For all the details around Jake Paul vs Mike Tyson, check out our fight hub here. For all the biggest results and upcoming fights this year, check out Dexerto\u2019s 2024 boxing schedule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Former world champion accuses Jake Paul vs Mike Tyson of being a \u201cfix\u201d Associated PressJake Paul vs Mike Tyson has been accused of being a \u201cfix\u201d by former world champion Carl Froch. \u2018The Cobra\u2019, who is a three-time world super-middleweight champion, has been outspoken in his criticism of Paul\u2019s ability in the past and has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}